Concrete construction software is searched for by a small concrete contractor who wants three sums done right and the paperwork that follows kept: the yards for the pour from the slab's dimensions and the waste allowance, the estimate for the job at the contractor's own rates with the supplier's price per yard as an input, and the draw against the schedule of values once the pour is in, with retainage held. The suites sell a scheduling board and a per-user price around those; the concrete contractor's need is narrower and the arithmetic is exact. This page works the three sums on the hub's examples, an 18 by 18 foot pad and a $450,000 contract, and points at the free tools on this site that do each with no account.
The pour: yards from the dimensions and the allowance
Cubic yards equals length times width times thickness in feet divided by 27, plus the contractor's waste allowance. The worked pad, 18 by 18 feet at 6 inches, is 162 cubic feet, 6.0 yards, 6.6 with 10% waste, ordered as 6.75 or 7 at what the supplier sells. Footings, walls and piers are the same sum for their shapes, and a job with a footing run, a stem wall and a slab is three sums added. The free concrete calculator on this site does the slab from your dimensions and your supplier's price per yard; the rules on formwork and placing at 29 CFR 1926 Subpart Q and the specifications the American Concrete Institute publishes are what the pour is done to.
The estimate: the pour's lines at the contractor's own rates
The concrete at the supplier's price per yard, $990 for 6.6 yards at $150; the pump if one is needed at its rate; the base, forms, steel and vapor barrier at the yard's prices; the finishing at the contractor's own rate per square foot for the finish specified; the labor to form and place at the crew's rate; and the contractor's contingency and overhead and profit at their own percentages. Concrete construction software has to show those as lines the owner reads, and the free construction cost estimator on this site does, from the contractor's own cost per square foot with site work, contingency and overhead and profit as separate figures.
The draw: billing the pour against the schedule of values
Once the concrete is in, the slab's line on the schedule of values is billed by its share complete with retainage held. On the hub's contract example, a $450,000 job 35% complete with 20% billed before, $12,000 of stored materials and 10% retainage bills $71,550 this period, with $7,950 held and $292,500 to finish; a concrete subcontract within a larger job is worked the same way on its own sum. The free schedule-of-values draw on this site works the period from those five inputs, and the AIA G702 application is the form the lines are laid out on.
What the paid record keeps, and what it costs
The free tools do the three sums on the page with no account. The paid plan keeps them: every calculation saved to the project, every estimate branded and exported, every draw filed against the client with the retainage held to date and the balance to finish, so the next draw is a lookup. The suites price per user per month: Fieldwire Basic is free, Pro is $39 and Business $64 per user per month billed annually. DrawScheduleWorks Pro is one price for the contractor, because the record is the contractor's and not a seat's.
Questions people ask about concrete construction software
What should concrete construction software do for a small contractor?
Three sums and the record of them: the yards for the pour from the dimensions and the waste allowance, the estimate at the contractor's own rates with the supplier's price as an input, and the draw against the schedule of values with retainage held.
Does it need a scheduling board or a clock-in app?
Those are adjacent products for adjacent buyers. The concrete contractor's arithmetic is the pour, the estimate and the draw, which the free tools on this site do; the paid plan keeps them against the project.
How is it priced against the suites?
The suites price per user per month: Fieldwire Basic is free, Pro $39 and Business $64 per user per month billed annually. DrawScheduleWorks Pro is one flat price for the contractor.